“The eye is the lamp of the body…” (Matthew 6.22) Sometimes I’ll sit out on our back porch by the lake and reflect. Crickets chirp from the reeds beyond the water as a drip from the night’s rainfall ponders down the gutter. The black as I look out, at this time of night, or as […]
The Fruit of Following the Lord
Bible Verse: “They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them. Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them… But all who listen to me will live in peace, untroubled by fear of harm.” Proverbs 1.30-33 Lesson: The waywardness […]
God Remembers You
Genesis 8:1 “But God remembered Noah…and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.” To my daughter: it’s so easy for us to focus on our problems. Yet Noah went through the worst disaster in the world. Really. To you, he represents coming through baptism, despite all your sin, into redemption — and what an incredible accomplishment that was by Jesus. […]